Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...polychromatic creature of Novelist Hudson's fancy, but a new, strange, bovine character. Her archaic, flat-footed figure, her tremendous and sagging muscles, her heavy Buddhistic countenance roused a deafening discussion. She was called grotesque, horrible. The protests culminated in a student uprising in which the bird-girl was painted green. Londoners today point out with chagrin her quiet nook, declare she "scares the birds away...
...confused with Bird Girl Koo-Koo of Ringling Side-Show fame...
Hansi Preisinger, daughter of Oberammergau's postmaster was a candidate for the supreme role of the Virgin Mary. Custom demands that not only must the girl chosen be a virgin but she must remain unmarried for one year afterward. Hansi, ablest virgin actress, is engaged to an engineer in the power plant. So the tactful electors awarded her the role of Mary Magdalene, less important, more nubile...
...Rita (RKO). No one can enjoy musical comedy unless he has trained himself to endure patiently the dull moments that fall between a song and a dance and a story. These moments in Rio Rita consist of a heavy melodrama about a Mexican girl, a captain of the Texas Rangers, an alleged bandit. The vehicle is a handsome series of photographs, occasionally colored, of a musical comedy. Knowing that years of success had made the original music boring, the producers have put in some good new songs, the best being "Sweetheart, We Need Each Other." RKO's policy...
...wearing silver wigs in Cecil B. De Mille's period pictures. Lately, in her 40th to 49th pictures inclusive, she has been uniformily a slightly madcap but inherently sensible heroine whose activities whether in college (The Campus Flirt), a newspaper office (Hot News), a bathing suit (Swim, Girl, Swim, The Palm Beach Girl), or more esoteric backgrounds (A Kiss in a Taxi, Lovers in Quarantine, Senorita), embodied a gaiety only faintly flavored with sentiment. Bebe Daniels had a good time and seldom took a holiday. She was engaged to Charles ("Fastest Human") Paddock, but called it off. One winter...